A Communist Pope ???

[Drummond]

Well, now .. 'I wonder' ....

https://www.americamagazine.org/fait...l-basic-income

the Vatican April 12, 2020. In a remarkable Easter Sunday letter to members of social movements around the world, Pope Francis, noting that the widespread suffering caused by the global coronavirus pandemic does not fall evenly, suggested that the crisis warranted the establishment of a universal basic income. He described it also as an opportunity for affluent societies to “downshift” and re-evaluate patterns of consumption and exploitation.

"This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out," Pope Francis wrote. "It would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights."

“I hope that this time of danger will free us from operating on automatic pilot, shake our sleepy consciences and allow a humanist and ecological conversion that puts an end to the idolatry of money and places human life and dignity at the center,” Pope Francis said.

“Our civilization—so competitive, so individualistic, with its frenetic rhythms of production and consumption, its extravagant luxuries, its disproportionate profits for just a few—needs to downshift, take stock and renew itself.” Pope Francis said that “technocratic paradigms (whether state-centered or market-driven) are not enough to address this crisis or the other great problems affecting humankind.”

The profit motive. That common denominator, driving and facilitating the very human drive towards material betterment. The Pope clearly hates it. He clearly thinks Covid-19 is his passport to dismantling it. Who'd have thought we could have a Pope whose psychology was akin to Chairman Mao's ??

[icansayit]

NOTICE any similarities to how the American, Democrat LEFT is working toward the establishment of Socialism????

[Kathianne]

Seems to me that nearly all popes are pretty close on this type of preaching. This one just doesn't avoid the buzzwords. I think to Christian message is certainly more like pure communism, than capitalism. Of course there's not pure communism.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Seems to me that nearly all popes are pretty close on this type of preaching. This one just doesn't avoid the buzzwords. I think to Christian message is certainly more like pure communism, than capitalism. Of course there's not pure communism.

Sorry my friend but on that I have to disagree..


-- "" Christian message is certainly more like pure communism,""


Matthew 22:21 Jesus said "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's."

Jesus did not come to overthrow Rome. Nor did ever give advice that Christianity was to act as a political body.
His message was primarily about Salvation, not giving advice to Rome on how it should GOVERN!
As this new Pope is now giving.
Would be best if he knew to stay within religion and not try to be a politician imho..
As he is 100% wrong on issuing those words in the name of Christ..
Of course that is very likely why he was installed early, imho...

There is no getting around that quoted verse, is there??/-Tyr

[Kathianne]

Sorry my friend but on that I have to disagree..


-- "" Christian message is certainly more like pure communism,""


Matthew 22:21 Jesus said "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's."

Jesus did not come to overthrow Rome. Nor did ever give advice that Christianity was to act as a political body.
His message was primarily about Salvation, not giving advice to Rome on how it should GOVERN!
As this new Pope is now giving.
Would be best if he knew to stay within religion and not try to be a politician imho..
As he is 100% wrong on issuing those words in the name of Christ..
Of course that is very likely why he was installed early, imho...

There is no getting around that quoted verse, is there??/-Tyr

Ok.

[icansayit]

Ok.

First time anyone has ever referred to me and my beliefs as communism. Then again. I should avoid mentioning that the VATICAN has a large collection of Billions of World dollars not mutually shared to rid the world of Hunger, Poverty, and Healthcare. EXCUSE me while I just STOP here.